[texpoint-users] inline math mode - font problem

David Akers dakers at graphics.stanford.edu
Wed Sep 30 09:04:13 PDT 2009


That makes sense - thanks for the helpful and timely response!

Dave

TexPoint wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I suspect that the problem is that you manually convert the result
> of texifying to cmmi10 font. That font contains only the tex
> mathematical symbols. Latex has a complex mechanism for choosing fonts
> and in this case it would not choose cmmi10 for the symbols that are
> missing.
>
> I suspect that your goal is to get "x" and "2" to use the cmmi10 font,
> so that it looks nicer. Unfortunaately, this is not easy to do in
> inline mode. You can try to write \cmm{x} but you might find this
> tedious. I have written it down as a feature request in a future
> version to better support this usage.
>
> George.
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:16 PM, David Akers
> <dakers at graphics.stanford.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm a new user of the trial version of TexPoint (version 3.2.1) - with
>> PowerPoint 2007.
>>
>> From what I can tell, the inline "math mode" (cmmi10) font included with
>> TexPoint seems to be lacking certain mathematical symbols. As a consequence,
>> if I type an equation like "(x^2 + 2) = 0," then Texify the equation and
>> convert it to cmmi10 font, some of it looks great, but the parentheses and
>> the + sign get mangled. (The equals sign, for example, looks like a forward
>> slash.) I can work around the problem by manually alternating fonts (for
>> example, using cmss10 for the parentheses and equals sign, and cmmi10 for
>> the rest)... eventually I get something that looks reasonable, but this is
>> quite tedious.
>>
>> I'm just trying to find an easy way to make inline equations that look
>> decent. Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? I suspect there might be
>> an easy solution, although I have searched the archives and manual to no
>> avail.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Dave
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